Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” and the World War II epic ...

Annakin dabbled in many genres, from action comedies and family fare to crime drama and swashbuckling romance. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s — when he started making ...

Film director Ken Annakin has died at the age of 94. The British-born filmmaker is best known for directing the 1965 World War II epic “The Battle of the Bulge” with Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, ...

Born in England, Ken Annakin worked as a salesman and journalist, traveling to New Zealand and America where he developed an interest in film. Joining the British Army during World War II, Annakin was ...

Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” and the World War II epic ...

Ken Annakin, a British director whose films included the family-adventure classic “Swiss Family Robinson,” the madcap comedy “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” and the World War II epic ...

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British film director Ken Annakin, best known for his war movies The Longest Day and The Battle of the Bulge, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 94. According to daughter Deborah Peters, the ...

Many of the 50 films of the director Ken Annakin, who has died aged 94, were spectaculars. These included The Battle of the Bulge; his most famous project, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying ...

British-born director Ken Annakin, best known for his Second World War epics, 1962's The Longest Day and 1965's Battle of the Bulge, has died in Los Angeles age 94. His daughter, Deborah Peters, told ...